Sunrise on the Reaping

Suzanne Collins's blockbuster fifth Hunger Games novel, set twenty-four years before Katniss Everdeen's own Games. Sixteen-year-old Haymitch Abernathy is reaped for the 50th Hunger Games, the brutal second Quarter Quell, where twice the usual number of tributes must fight to the death. As Haymitch is forced to confront the Capitol's cruelty and propaganda machine up close, the novel reveals the harrowing roots of the bitter, hard-drinking mentor readers first met in the original trilogy. A devastating, essential addition to the Hunger Games saga.